This is an important moment for the Royal Society. The evidence is clear - scientists at the CRU have misrepresented our understanding of the Earth's temperature history to policymakers. The Society must speak out now. If it does not, then the fellows must take a stand against the Society's leadership. Failing that the premier scientific body of the UK will forever be brushed aside as another mouthpiece for the environmental movement.

Recall the prophecy by MIT Professor Richard Lindzen made long before Climategate:

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

The wonder will concern in particular The Royal Society webpage still two weeks after Climategate, stating without any irony:

The UK is at the forefront of tackling dangerous climate change, underpinned by world class scientific expertise and advice.

Climate scientists from the UK and across the world are in overwhelming agreement about the evidence of climate change, driven by the human input of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Obama prepares skipping Copenhagen by postponing his presence to the very last day, which by the UN organizers is viewed as a step forward. Just one more day and it will be all over...what is the point of coming to the bar at closing time?